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1. What city’s mayor is refusing to resign after posting comments last week to a personal Facebook page that City Council members say are racist?
A. Spokane
B. Airway Heights
C. Tacoma
D. Coeur d’Alene
E. Post Falls
2. Ken Stabler, the left-handed, Super Bowl-winning quarterback of the Oakland Raiders, once played for a minor league football team in Spokane. What was the name of that team of the late 1960s?
A. Shock
B. Kaisers
C. Albi Air-Raiders
D. Shockers
E. Expos
3. Who was selected Most Valuable Player in the Major League Baseball All-Star game?
A. Felix Hernandez
B. Nelson Cruz
C. Mike Trout
D. Prince Fielder
E. Albert Pujols
4. Derek Barron, a golf professional out of the Tacoma Golf Center, shot a course-record 59 on Wednesday during the pro-am portion of the Rosauers Open at Indian Canyon Golf Course in Spokane. What was the previous course record?
A. 60
B. 63
C. 61
D. 64
E. 62
5. A hotel in southwestern Japan, aptly called Weird Hotel, is “manned” almost totally by what?
A. Homeless people
B. Computers
C. Chimpanzees
D. Robots
E. Children